Leica iiic, factory converted to a iiif. Purchased from Ebay in a non-functioning condition. Stripped the camera, rebuilt the escapement, cleaned and lubed all the gearing, now the shutter fires like butter. Stay tuned for the re-assembly…
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In hindsight, there is something a little unsettling, at least to me, about hopping a plane to Las Vegas on a Friday night with all of eighteen dollars in my pocket and a handful of film in the bag, though a free ride helped stem the discomfort, and a hotel room twice the size of my apartment would alleviate the rest, and nothing makes photographs quite like the most ridiculous city ever created by man, woman or god, so it wasn’t as though I could turn down the offer.
Both white trash and new money were out in full force, Elvis was, as a matter of fact, in several buildings, lounge lizards and blue hairs, pumping the slot machines like rats hitting the feeder bar for another tasty food pellet, and just when I thought I had seen it all, in strolled a young woman in white with full bridal party in tow, groom and groomsmen dressed to the nines, they made their vows to one another right then and there, in a shopping mall food court.
“Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas, and sweet Jesus, there are a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning. Still humping the American dream.” - Hunter S. Thompson
Thanks Doc, for the Vegas bender…
After a bit of re-organizing and a little editing, the fine art prints section has been pared down and updated to reflect the most popular imagess in my archive. In addition to the re-organization, custom silver gelatin print sets of selected images are now available for purchase at a lesser price per print than when ordering single photographs.
Fine art print sets contain between three and six silver gelatin prints and are available in two sizes; 8×10 and 11×14 inches. Each print is matted with buffered 4 ply acid free museum board and delivered in an archival clamshell box. Sets of 8×10’s will be matted to 11×14 inches, sets of 11×14’s will be matted to 16×20 inches.
As always, I personally hand print all image sets using traditional darkroom processes. Each image is individually printed, and no two prints are ever the same, making each print a unique piece with its own individual characteristics.
More Notes On Process » || About Fine Art Prints » || View Silver-Gelatin Fine Art Print Sets »
It’s long overdue. Time for a house clearing and some major reorganization of presence on the web.
The openorigins.com site will continue to function as is for the time being. I will continue to post in a somewhat regular fashion, but there will be significantly less new content being published. The new site, www.josephszymanski.com, will now host all of my personal work, while gradually the origins site will be phased out and re-vamped into something completely different. What that is I’m not quite sure, but I have a few ideas cooking.
The new feed address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/MostlyPhotography.. The origins feed will stay the same for now, though eventually it will most likely forward here. I encourage everyone who is subscribe to update to the new address. I’ll send out some more reminders on this over the next few weeks. If you wish to subscribe via email, visit the Subscribe page.
A good deal of the static content here is the same, with a few updates, additions and minor changes. The fine art prints section has been completely overhauled. Check out the print sets page for custom image sets.
Some notes on code. I have done very little debugging for Internet Explorer and make no promises that it will function perfectly, or even properly. If it doesn’t work, download a real browser instead of an over inflated piece of bloat-ware like IE.
As always, enjoy…